bedfast
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Here and there a bedfast invalid screamed foolishly.
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First, a cumbersome external device that will keep the patient bedfast.
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His mother had been bedfast with an incurable ailment for months and he wanted to marry highfalutin Mary Louise Smith, 18-year-old daughter of onetime big-league Ballplayer Jimmy Smith, now a well-to-do Pittsburgh nightclub owner.
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The enemy that made General Douglas MacArthur a bedfast hospital casualty last week is as common as it is mysterious.
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She had been for some time bedfast, having all her days from the date of her widowhood been a tender woman; but no change made any alteration on the Christian contentment of her mind.
From The Annals of the Parish; or, the chronicle of Dalmailing during the ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder by John Galt
